Rethinking telecommuting with an i-deals perspective

An Economic Perspective of Cross-Border Telecommuting

Why supervisors make idiosyncratic deals: antecedents and outcomes of i-deals from a managerial perspective

Purpose – Idiosyncratic deals are personalized employment conditions individual workers have negotiated. This study aims to investigate influences on supervisors’ authorization of i-deals and their evaluation of these arrangements. Design/methodology/approach – Structural modeling was used to analyze survey data from n 1⁄4 263 supervisors managing telecommuting employees in the German public ad...

Rethinking Perspective : ' Rethinking Medicare Reform ' Needs

I-deals: Idiosyncratic Terms in Employment Relationships

When individual workers negotiate employment terms that differ from those of coworkers, these idiosyncratic arrangements or ideals may benefit both the individual worker and employer, but coworkers may respond negatively unless certain conditions apply. We distinguish functional idiosyncratic arrangements from their dysfunctional counterparts, and develop propositions specifying how ideals are ...

Auctions with Arbitrary Deals

To come to a deal, a bargaining process can sometimes take a long time. An auction may be a faster, but existing auction models cannot cope with situations where money is not an issue, or where it is difficult to express the utility of all participants in a monetary domain. We propose a modified Vickrey auction based only on preferences over the possible bids. This approach also allows for situ...